I never set out to do anything unusual or newsworthy. I just like to study and learn, and I've always been that way.
If you don't set a very big, aggressive goal, you're never going to get anywhere.
I was originally set to star in 'The Bourne Identity,' but I found it too difficult to even pretend to forget who I was.
Made by Hand is impossible to set down once you start reading it.
Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so that we may feel again their majesty and power? What do we ever know that is higher than that power which, from time to time, seizes our lives, and reveals us startlingly to ourselves as creatures set down here bewildered?
I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.
The wind blows on us all, but it's how you set your ssail that makes the difference.
I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.
When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.
We never find what we set out hearts on. We ought to be glad of that.
If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.
The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!
The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration. . . I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood going, even though it were condemned by all other artists as anti-musical.
I can't come on like a parent to these kids, if I do, I won't be able to have fun working with them. The good news is they all have parents. The younger ones, their parents by law have to be on set.
Eat, breathe, meditate and love and you're all set
My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.
You want the world to be set up for you, but sometimes it just isn't.
I love that about filmmaking - seeing final product and getting to see everyone else that you don't necessarily engage with on set every day and getting them to showcase their talents. Whether it's effects, music, the edit, the rhythm of a film is driven by that, so it's cool to see it come together. It's great to be standing in front of something you're genuinely proud of.
Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in mind.